how to implement consumer consent protocols to access bank account data under open banking scenarios …

Findex) database providing country-level indicators on the use of formal bank accounts, payments behavior, savings patterns …

-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank Policy Research Paper 7255). It provides 41 country …

composition and competition in the enterprise sector. This report reviews and synthesizes a large body of research, and provides …

This paper discusses rural finance aspects of the World Bank's rural development strategy, "Reaching the Rural Poor … highlighting priorities for the future. The primary objective is to articulate how the Bank views current best practices in rural … countries, Bank staff, and other donor agencies. In the process, it provides some operational guidance on the types of …

In 2007-08 Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, was in the process of reforming the financial …: reputable private investors; small and medium entrepreneurs; BRAC, a microfinance institution; Kabul Bank, a fast growing … commercial bank; and Bank Millie, a state-owned bank. The examination of each institution will address the factors that have …

"Under the traditional "competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit … margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition …-stability" view, more market power in the loan market may result in greater bank risk as the higher interest rates charged to loan …